Product Description

Nikon is a precision optical company with worldwide manufacturing, research and marketing capabilities. The Nikon name is equated with extraordinary photographic performance, innovation, precision and optical quality.PRODUCT FEATURES:Versatile wide-angle lens for a broad range of uses;Perfect lens for the photographer on the go;Fast f/2 maximum aperture makes this ideal for low light, hand-held shooting.

Product Details

• Brand: Nikon
• Model: 1923
• Dimensions: .75 pounds

Features

• Compact, lightweight wide-angle lens for general photography
• 62-degree (44-degree with Nikon DX format) picture angle for candids, portraits, and travel photographs
• Nikon Super Integrated Coating for minimized flare and ghost, providing good color balance
• Fast f2 maximum aperture make this ideal for low-light, hand-held shooting
• 0.85-foot close focusing distance

Manufacturer Description
Lens-making is an art--Nikon artisans craft Nikkor optics from the finest materials, taking pride in adding their intellect and technique to bring the world's finest lenses to life. They push the leading edge of lens-making in their effort to provide the "glass" that makes the world's greatest pictures.

AF Nikkor lenses work with Nikon SLRs for optimal performance, even the very latest. The Nikon 35mm f2D AF Nikkor is a compact, lightweight wide-angle lens constructed with superb optical design for architecture, wedding, and landscape photography. It features 62-degree (44-degree with Nikon DX format) picture coverage with edge-to-edge sharpness. The perfect lens for the photographer on the go, the fast f2 maximum aperture makes this ideal for low light, hand-held shooting. It also weighs an exceptionally light 7.2 ounces and boasts a 0.85-foot close focusing distance.

Nikon Super Integrated Coating ensures exceptional performance
To enhance the performance of its optical lens elements, Nikon employs an exclusive multilayer lens coating that helps reduce ghost and flare to a negligible level. Nikon Super Integrated Coating achieves a number of objectives, including minimized reflection in the wider wavelength range and superior color balance and reproduction. Nikon Super Integrated Coating is especially effective for lenses with a large number of elements, like our Zoom-Nikkors. Also, Nikon's multilayer coating process is tailored to the design of each particular lens. The number of coatings applied to each lens element is carefully calculated to match the lens type and glass used, and also to assure the uniform color balance that characterizes Nikkor lenses. This results in lenses that meet much higher standards than the rest of the industry.

Distance information
D-type and G-type Nikkors relay subject-to-camera distance information to AF Nikon camera bodies. This then makes possible advances like 3D Matrix Metering and 3D Multi-Sensor Balanced Fill-Flash. Note: D-type and G-type Nikkors provide distance information to the following cameras: Auto exposure; F6, F5, F100, F90X, F80, F75, F70, F65, F60, F55, F50, Pronea S, Pronea 600i, D2 series, D1 series, D100 and D70s/D70. Flash control; F6, F5, F100, F90X, F80, F75, F70, D2 series, D1 series, D100, and D70s/D70 cameras.

What's in the Box:
Lens, 52mm snap-on front lens cap, rear lens cap LF-1.

Customer Reviews

Excellent prime lens. THE prime lens of you own a DX DSLR body.
I've owned this lens for many years now. It will always be my lens of choice when i don't want to use my zoom lenses.
Pros:
(+) Excellent optical quality, sharpness. no vignetting whatsoever on a DX sensor.
(+) Fast and accurate autofocus (on higher end bodies)
(+) Compact size.
(+) Normal viewing angle on a DX sensor.

Cons:
(-) Does not autofocus on entry level bodies (D40 and D60 at the time of this writing)

Other F-mount lenses owned:
* Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 (as good as the 35mm optically, but too narrow viewing angle on a DX body for my taste)
* Nikkor 18-70mm zoom (good)
* Sigma 10-20mm zoom (good for city travel photography, and sometimes outdoors, noticable distortion if you measure it, but it does not really bother me)
* Sigma 30mm f/1.4 (erratic autofocus, not that good lens IMO, although it is physically BIG)

My favourite lens
My best lens by far. Great IQ, light and not too expensive. The focal length is more usable than the 50mm 1.8 (also great) and the build quality is better. I mainly use mine for portraits at f2.8. At f2 it's a tiny bit soft but at 2.8 it's perfect. I have taken some brilliant pics with it. You will not regret this buy.

beats the 50mm f/1.8
I have a D80 and two VR lenses covering 18-200mm, a 50mm f/1.8...and now this gem. I only add to other positive reviews that this is great for taking shots of my kids and easier to get them into the frame. I think that the f/2 is as good or better than the f/1.8. Also, photos of landscapes are much sharper with this than the 50mm. It feels more solidly built. I like Ken Rockwell and wish that he had evaluated this lens in greater detail...but take his word, this lens is a "gem". It feels great on the D80 and I'm having lots of fun, and surprisingly the colors are excellent.